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"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
“I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman--which means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
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“TIME Magazine probably publishes many facts, but since its founding in the early 1920's I have been on the spot eight or nine times when something that wound up as a news story in TIME happened. Not once—not once—did the TIME Magazine story match what I saw and heard.”
― Expanded Universe
― Expanded Universe
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